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How is the Piracy community adapting to port forwarding becoming a rarer premium feature, and most users on public trackers do not have it? Is the bitorrent protocol in need of update? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bulgaria, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Netherlands, Russia, Cyprus, Moldova, Romania, Ukraine, Singapore, and Sweden. They all spit in the eye of DMCA.

VPS in any of these countries, or just find a provider that doesn't care about torrenting. If you go the VPS option, run your own VPN and just look for a VPS that allows considerable traffic. A quick example, Ultahost (Netherlands) offers a VPS with unlimited bandwidth for $7/mo if you pay for 3 years in advance. Like sure, now you're paying to torrent, but I would rather pay $7/mo to protect myself with a VPN that I control vs worrying about port forwarding and getting DMCA's in the mail. 🤷‍♂️ I guess it depends on how much skin you want in the game.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

That's exactly what I did. Better yet I routed it though a wireguard tunnel! I documented the process here.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago (38 children)

As someone who has recently started seeding as much as I can, this is a great question to which I don't have the answer.

I am not renewing my Proton yearly subscription after it ends due to recent developments. They seem to be the only "big name" VPN with the port forwarding feature. I heard of OpenVPN, but have not had a chance to dig into it too much.

My ISP does not provide IPV6 support, so this will be pretty important to sort out soon.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago

OpenVPN is client/server software for setting up a VPN on your own infrastructure. It's not a third-party service like ProtonVPN.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Airvpn offers port forwarding

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Aren't they located in Italy, the Shithole that keeps trying to outlaw all VPNs and/or force them to provide backdoors and identifiable customers? They can only be stopped so many times before they succeed...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Yeah it's a bit of a "for now" thing and worth keeping an eye on Italy. To their credit, they don't offer services in Italy itself anymore after the "privacy shield" bullshit because "it goes against their mission" (for what that's worth lol)

Afaik, there's not many other choices for port forwarding

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Torguard looks very BT friendly but I've still got mullvad subscription left and haven't tried them. That and the branding / website just seem illegitimate though I've not found any legit criticisms.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I believe airvpn has port forward.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It does.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I've been happily using Windscribe for a while now, they have port forwarding with a dedicated IP. Averaging out the separate charges, it's about $4 USD/month for a custom plan (1 location + unlimited data) + dedicated IP. Technically their Pro tier includes ephemeral port forwarding, but I don't like how it works.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've never had a problem with it in Spain. What is different where you live? CGNAT?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (12 children)

I've never used port forwarding. Everything works fine

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago

The best solution IMO are seedboxes

We also have a community dedicated to them: [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Seedboxes?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Can't have 20+ tb in a seedbox at a reasonable price

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Localhost NAS with large storage, Rclone to seedbox, synch, remove old content from seedbox

Source: I have 8TB rn and about to add more, this is how I use my seedbox and store shit

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Only seeding new stuff that everyone else is also seeding is not good for torrenting in general, it will kill a lot of content that's more than a few years old and/or not completely mainstream.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

It still works for now, but it would be neat if only the uploading part needed to go through a VPN since that's the bit you can get in trouble for.

Would need a way of obfuscating the uploaders and downloaders though.

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